90% - > OH FUCK DEAD

I tried so hard.

I cannot get my squishy ES based casters past levels 87 / 88.

High level maps suck for 'East side' builds.

88 is around where mapping stops being fun and starts being a chore for me. I'd like to round out at 90 but that's the point when you need higher level maps to get decent xp and I don't fuck around with the stupid content gate shit.

I think it's easier to reach 90 than it was before. 78+ maps give pretty nice xp, even at level 90. I believe I was getting ~5% xp per 78 map at level 90. That's only 20 maps which can be completed in 2 hours or less. Some of you will argue you have to have the maps first. Now I realize it may be rng, but with sufficient investment into map rolling, I didn't really struggle getting up a nice collection of 76+ maps. I've gotten a fair bit of 80s but 81s and 82s seem to be more of a treat(and imo I like it this way).

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Bars wrote:

Want to level? Fortify, arctic armour, lightning coil, chaos golem and endurance charges would like to have a word with you.


I know, it's so interesti...

This. This. This.

PoE has become so one-dimensional.

Fortify and Endurance charges aren't easily available to casters.

Arctic armour is now reserved, which means for a lot of builds it removes access to another defensive or offensive aura, which really makes it no better (I could run AA for a little damage reduction, OR run HoI on my cold crit witch / EK shadow with Hatred and increase their freeze chances / durations, which also increase survivability).

Lightning coil isn't viable for INT / ES based casters either.